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Originally Posted by Zenith26kc20
And don't forget a well aimed football into a LCD screen. This is common during football season! Seems the CRT sets took it pretty good as long as it didn't knock them off the stand. LCD's aren't so forgiving.
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I was shopping a local Goodwill to pick up a few cheap VCRs (was after a TV modulator circuit that I could move to channel 2 and or 6). saw a flat panel set for $50, turned it on and saw only psychedelic colors, and could see that the panel was cracked all over. I'd say that it was totaled, and $50 would be too much for parts...
As for CRT set abuse, when Howard Cosell did football games, some bars would have a raffle to pick a patron to toss a brick at a cheap used POS TV at the time (probably a set we'd want for our collections today
) when Howard was on the screen during the football game.